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At an Isle of Wight Board of Supervisors meeting in December, Sheriff Mark Marshall queued up a series of audio files. The first was from a sheriff's deputy in the northwestern part of the county. The deputy was being assaulted by someone he was trying to arrest, and listeners can hear him frantically shouting into his radio, but the words are unintelligible. In another, a rescue worker responding to an incident at Smithfield High School is speaking slowly and calmly, but his voice is muffled and listeners can only make out words every so often. "10-4" and "student" come through, but nothing else. The dispatcher responds "unable to copy" to let first...

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At an Isle of Wight Board of Supervisors meeting in December, Sheriff Mark Marshall queued up a series of audio files.
The first was from a sheriff's deputy in the northwestern part of the county. The deputy was being assaulted by someone he was trying...

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